Social Justice

Hey Convention attendees – do you have some old eyeglasses you’re no longer using? Bring them to Convention and donate them to Rayjon! The OPSEU/SEFPO Social Justice Fund Board will have a donation box available at the Silent Auction table for your donated glasses. Your glasses will be given to Rayjon, a not-for-profit organization that...

By Alexandrea Seggewiss, Local 715, InSolidarity Building community was a common theme throughout Region 7’s Leadership Conference on Jan 31 to Feb 2. Over 70 members from across OPSEU/SEFPO’s largest region gathered, where new and experienced members alike connected through activism. The annual conference aims to discuss constitution and resolutions with an emphasis on the...

OPSEU/SEFPO represents more than 180,000 workers – a membership as diverse as Ontario itself, including people of many faiths and beliefs. What unites our membership is a deep concern about the devastating spiral of death and destruction in both Palestine and Israel. As a social justice union, we believe that unions and the broader labour...

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OPSEU/SEFPO’s Social Justice Fund is excited to present a free webinar from their partners at Horizons of Friendship! Join and learn how OPSEU/SEFPO’s Social Justice Fund has supported their many projects including the Migrant Worker Program in Ontario and Water for Everyone Project in Costa Rica. The OPSEU/SEFPO Social Justice Fund supports organizations fighting for...

On Tuesday this week, Canada supported a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations General Assembly. Canada’s vote was the result of mass demonstrations calling for a ceasefire, which took place all across Canada in the last nine weeks. But it’s not a ceasefire till the bombs stop. We need to make the ceasefire real. Join...

Dear Members, In response to the ongoing tragedy in the Middle East, many of you have been writing to us to ask OPSEU/SEFPO to take a stronger position – to call for a ceasefire and to join the millions of people who have been on the streets, marching in support of an immediate ceasefire in...

OPSEU/SEFPO condemns all acts of violence against civilians, and the alarming rise of Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in Canada and around the world. As members of the labour movement, our national union National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), we’re sharing the following statements, which call for a...

OPSEU/SEFPO stands in solidarity with the Sikh community in the wake of the death of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar outside the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Surrey, B.C. – a Sikh temple. We echo the federal NDP’s calls for a public inquiry on the circumstances surrounding the death. We hope that a public inquiry will...

On Wednesday, September 20th, groups from the far right are planning events in Ontario and across Canada opposing the teaching of 2SLGBTQIA+ content in schools. They’re framing it as “protecting children.” But this has nothing to do with protecting children. Quite the opposite – this is about fostering hate, encouraging anti-2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination and causing harm...

The climate crisis is here. Ontario is burning. This summer, all across Ontario the skies were orange and the air was thick with smoke from fires throughout the province and in other parts of the country. We are living through a climate emergency and working people are bearing the brunt of climate change – many...

As a parent and an Ontarian, I believe all kids should feel safe and protected at school and in their homes. But the outing of trans and non-binary students – a policy move favoured by Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce – will do just the opposite. It will seriously harm vulnerable trans and non-binary...